SOUTH Africa is likely to end the national state of disaster by next week, according to Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
She said that new proposed COVID-19 regulations have been gazetted.
In a media address on Tuesday evening, Dlamini-Zuma said Cabinet held a meeting on Monday on its approach to lifting the regulations and what additional rules will remain in place to aid the transition.
She added that the state of disaster cannot be lifted in a ‘reckless and abrupt manner’, and that some rules would likely remain in place for a further 30-day period once it is lifted. These include regulations around wearing maks, limitations on gatherings, and the payment of the R350 social relief of distress grant.
Regulations detailing these changes are expected to be published later this evening, with members of the public given 48 hours to comment.
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